Christ raises Lazarus to life. The rulers resolve to put him to death.
11:1. Now there was a certain man sick, named Lazarus, of Bethania, of
the town of Mary and of Martha her sister.
11:2. (And Mary was she that anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped
his feet with her hair: whose brother Lazarus was sick.)
11:3. His sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom
thou lovest is sick.
11:4. And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto
death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified
by it.
11:5. Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and Lazarus.
11:6. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he still remained
in the same place two days.
11:7. Then after that, he said to his disciples: Let us go into Judea
again.
11:8. The disciples say to him: Rabbi, the Jews but now sought to stone
thee. And goest thou thither again?
11:9. Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man
walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this
world:
11:10. But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is
not in him.
11:11. These things he said; and after that he said to them: Lazarus
our friend sleepeth: but I go that I may awake him out of sleep.
11:12. His disciples therefore said: Lord, if he sleep, he shall do
well.
11:13. But Jesus spoke of his death: and they thought that he spoke of
the repose of sleep.
11:14. Then therefore Jesus said to them plainly: Lazarus is dead.
11:15. And I am glad, for your sakes; that I was not there, that you
may believe. But, let us go to him.
11:16. Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow
disciples: Let us also go, that we may die with him.
11:17. Jesus therefore came: and found that he had been four days
already in the grave.